Silicon Kid Website

SiliconKid.com.au is the official website of The Silicon Kid. In addition to providing information on The Kid, this site is provides a fully searchable archive of all Silicon Kid columns which have been published in The Canberra Times. The Silicon Kid columns will appear in the SK Archive two weeks after they have been published in The Canberra Times.

This website and access to the SK Archive are provided free of charge.

This website has been made possible through the generous contributions of several organisations. Here you can find an overview of these organisations, and how they have contributed to SiliconKid.com.au.

Itchybrain Productions

Hi there — this is Darryl Butler, owner of Itchybrain Productions. I create websites for solo, micro and small business.

My role in The Kid's website was to create the visual design, and develop the CSS code for the presentation.

Working with The Kid has been a great experience. Responding to his brief for a fun visual identity with some kind of science-fiction twist was very engaging, and I enjoyed every minute of it. The code was also required to integrate with The Kid's choice of content management system, and working with standards-based methods made this easy to achieve.

Recognising our synergy, we soon put our skills to good use on other projects, including my own website content management system — the 'BareBones CMS'. With newfound freedom to self-manage their website content, my clients are excited about having control of their own self-promotion.

If you'd like to know more about Itchybrain or the BareBones CMS, please drop by my website: http://www.itchybrain.com.au

Moray & Agnew Solicitors

Moray & Agnew Solicitors is a large Australian law firm specialising primarily in insurance and commercial work. Moray & Agnew have offices in Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Newcastle. Moray & Agnew recognises the importance of the new information economy and has developed expertise in a number of rapidly changing areas which underpin this new economy. These areas include digital technologies, broadband communication infrastructure, database protection, regulatory convergence, software licensing. The firm has specific expertise also in the areas of law relating to electronic health, including liability issues connected with software and expert systems and electronic health records privacy.

Paul Hynes, Special Counsel in the Canberra office of Moray and Agnew, coordinates the firm’s Communications and Digital Technologies practice group, and is Adjunct Professor of eCommerce Law, Commercial Law and eGovernment Law at the University of Canberra.

PC Users Group Canberra

The Canberra PCUG (PC Users Group) has been part of the Canberra community for over 20 years. We are one of the larger non-profit community groups here and our motto is "Users helping Users". The group is largely run by volunteers, and we have premises (including training facilities) in Holder ACT. The group provides full dial-up and Broadband Internet services to its members, and was the first Internet Service provider in Canberra. For more information on the group, please see our Web pages at http://www.pcug.org.au and perhaps download a brochure from http://www.pcug.org.au/member_info/howtojoin.htm. Our centre is manned from 10am to 2pm seven days per week, and further enquiries can be directed there on (02) 6287 2922.

When the Kid approached us to host his web site and database, we immediately recognised it as a great asset for our members and the wider community. A real Win Win situation. So our system administrators loaded some specialised software onto our web servers and left it to the Kid to continue to develop his site, and the all important database.

We are delighted to be helping the Kid to help Canberra's PC owning community by facilitating this very useful site.